OAKLAND — A former candidate for Alameda County auditor-controller was convicted of three misdemeanors Thursday for lying about being a county resident to enter the June 2014 election.

Kathleen Knox, 49, was sentenced to three years court probation and fined $2,281 after pleading no contest to three misdemeanor violations of California”s election code.

Knox dropped out of the June 3 primary election after being charged in May with seven felonies for registering to vote and filing candidacy papers using a San Leandro address when in fact she lives in Danville, in Contra Costa County.

As part of a plea deal with the Alameda County District Attorney”s Office, three of the charges were reduced to misdemeanors and another four charges were dismissed.

“We”re glad it”s over, and we”ll move on from here,” Leon Mezzetti, Knox”s attorney, said after the sentencing.

Knox owns the Rose Gate residential care home in San Leandro and reported that she was living in a two-bedroom apartment on its campus, but investigators found that her actual residence was in Danville with her twin teenagers.

Despite officially dropping out of the race for the auditor-controller job opened by the retirement of longtime auditor-controller/clerk-recorder Patrick O”Connell, her name remained on the ballot, since they had been printed before her arrest.

She still claimed about 25 percent of the ballots cast. Her sole opponent, Steve Manning, who had been chief deputy auditor under O”Connell, was elected to the job.